Tag: winter-22-23

The experiments continue.

The experiments are commencing.

I want more experiments. I want my next few project to all be experimental. Because experiments are fun and routine is boring!

So many interesting words to discover! Although, I’m fond of small, familiar words.

I’m thinking about everyday objects which have a single purpose. I feel like so many things today are multipurpose. For example, my phone is a music player, map, book, internet browser, video game console, compass, camera, calculator, clock, calendar, notebook, fitness tracker, audio recorder, and television. Also it can make calls. What happened to when…

I can feel I’m moving toward something, but toward what, I’m not sure. Maybe it’ll be a fun discovery!

I think a lot about who sees these and why I write them. Would I keep writing if I knew no one would read them? I think so. I like to think that someday people will read them. I like to think I’ve been real. Maybe I have an audience. Does it matter what I…

The Plan™ is 11% complete. Although, I’m not sure if it’s still the original plan at this point.

I figured out the UV coordinates! They were stored as 16-bit integers, and all I had to do was upgrade my debug viewer to realize I had already solved them. That was the last part of this project, so like, what now? I already reversed the accompanying image texture format. Maybe find a new, harder…

Again, 0% progress. That’s okay, though.

0% progress today! Ha ha!

Step one of The Plan™ is complete. Step two is 8% complete.

What if real life had UV maps? I’d put stickers on everything.

Progress! I finally figured out the file header and now my program works with other mesh files. Still not much progress on the UVs, though.

All my characters so far have been me and the elements. Cold is real. Sometimes it’s easier to stay cold than to stay warm.​
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I still need to write the code to decode 16-bit floats. I hope it works. Maybe Python has a built-in module to do it.

Update on the 3D file format reversing: today I discovered that 16-bit floats are a thing. That means that the UV coordinates could be using 4 bytes to store floating point U and V coordinates. Also, this day last year I published another bubble screensaver. Continuing the theme, today I discovered a partial fix for…

I’m thinking about the series I want to do in year 3. Maybe I’ll do another “30 Days of Sound”. I wish I had more time to write these posts. I wish I could invest more into them. I don’t have the time. Spring semester is starting soon and I’m going to be busy. Maybe…